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Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].

Marco Rubio lost every Florida county except his home Miami-Dade

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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio failed to convince voters outside his home county of Miami-Dade that he was a good Republican choice for president. With late but still incomplete returns, Florida’s junior senator was losing every county in Florida to Donald Trump except Miami-Dade. And he was finishing third in at least 26 counties, including most of the Panhandle, behind Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. And long before all the votes were counted, Rubio suspended his national campaign.…

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Florida Democrats belittle Marco Rubio on his Florida loss

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The Florida Democratic Party would just as soon not see U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio recover easily from his Florida Republican presidential primary loss so they piled on Tuesday, calling him “Little Marco” and saying he is out of excuses. The Democrats called his loss a “profound rejection” and embarrassing, accused him of having “ambition and professional delinquency as Florida’s Part time senator.” “Florida Democrats knew that once Americans got to know Marco, they would see what those of us in…

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Bill Nelson hails Barack Obama’s ban of Atlantic oil drilling

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President Barack Obama reversed direction Tuesday and banned oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic Ocean through 2022, leading Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to hail the move as good news for people who live along the coast. “We are grateful that they did that, for the reasons that we have fought for years to keep drilling off the coast of Florida,” Nelson said in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate Tuesday afternoon. In the morning, Obama’s Department…

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Slow, steady voting reported throughout Central Florida

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Voters are hardly flocking to polls but supervisors of elections throughout Central Florida are saying the presidential primary flows have been steady and headed toward turnouts in the 40-50 percent range of eligible voters. There have been no serious lines and just a few technical glitches in Seminole and Orange counties, all minor and taken care of in short order, and no problems reported in Osceola or Lake counties, the supervisors reported. Perhaps more so than in any previous election,…

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Democrats’ new ad targets GOP Senate candidates’ support for Donald Trump

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A new video from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee mocks the Republican U.S. Senate candidates, including Florida’s U.S. Reps. David Jolly and Ron DeSantis, for supporting Donald Trump. The spot is summed up in the last lines of the video: Footage of Trump at a podium has him declare, “What the hell are we doing?” “Exactly,” text on the screen responds. The 90-second video “Support” features a dozen Republican U.S. Senate candidates across the country including Jolly of St. Petersburg…

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New Marco Rubio video focuses on his generation doing its part for the children

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Marco Rubio‘s latest and perhaps last campaign video, released Monday, urges “It’s All About Florida” and emphasizes that it is time for his generation to do its part now to leave a better nation for children, including his. “I have four children,” Florida’s U.S. Senator and Republican presidential candidate states at the beginning of the minute-16-second video, “And I want them to inherit a country that’s as special as the one given to me. To me, that’s the most important issue.” The video,…

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New poll has Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton up by more than 20 points in Florida

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A new poll conducted by Florida Atlantic University gives commanding leads to Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton headed to Florida’s presidential primary on Tuesday. The survey, conducted Tuesday through Friday by FAU’s Business and Economics Polling Initiative, gives Trump 44 percent, followed by a tie between U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas with 21 percent each, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich 9 percent. For the Democrats, Clinton has 59 percent and U.S. Sen.…

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